I have a baby project going with these calendar refill pages. I give one to the boy and snap his photo. At the end of the year, I’ll have a little album of how he looked from week to week without having to keep track of exact dates. Especially great for the first year and birthdays.

I recently bought this set of six ornaments for a friend because she has six people in her family. Bless her soul.

Each Christmas everyone writes a wish on a slip of paper (included) and closes it inside their ornament. Next Christmas, check to see if your wish came true and make another. This will be a nice family tradition–once the kids stop fighting about who gets the purple one.

A casual baby book and journal with gorgeous illustrations and creative prompts. There’s room for monthly updates, but also space to record songs, books, and games you play with your baby. It’s compact, so you can tuck it into your diaper bag for trips to the coffee shop, increasing the odds that you’ll actually fill in the pages.

You send them an EKG printout, they send you a ring with the pulse, name, and date engraved inside. Price varies based on whether you choose titanium, platinum, white or yellow gold. Have it engraved with the baby’s pulse for a new dad, give it to someone who’s recovered from a major illness and is feeling lucky to be kicking, or just use it as a token of love or a wedding band.

So you don’t have a kid? This book will make you want one. I’d been eyeing it online trying to decide whether it was too pricey for a baby book, when the folks at Binth sent me a copy. I opened it and gasped. You will want to caress this book, it’s that good. Each page is silk-screened, and accented with lean silhouettes in sage, pale blue, and black. It’s a limited edition, acid free, heirloom that guides you in recording your baby’s milestones through age three. Worth every penny.

BY REQUEST This acid-free, 100 percent cotton journal features a suede-lined compartment where you can store mementos. The box closes with a magnetic clap, so your treasures will stay put. You could use it as a baby book, storing a locket of hair, baby booties, and a snip of blankie fabric. Or use it as a travel journal and secret away bits of stone from the piazza, a wine label, and a stalk of lavender from the guest-cottage garden.

BY REQUEST Joslyn writes, “I’m looking for a good baby journal. Not one of those that has pre-printed prompts and questions in it. I just want a nice, attractive journal with blank pages inside to keep a record of the daily happenings in my infant son’s life. Important that it be acid and lignin free.” Kozo Arts is one of my favorite San Francisco companies. They make stunning, archival quality journals, albums, and guestbooks. You choose the size. This album or journal has stylized bunnies hopping about on the cover, and each heavy-duty blank page is separated from the next by a sheet of glassine. Price quoted is for a 9” x 12” album.

I’d been looking around for a personalized photo calendar, and Ofoto had the most reasonably priced, easily produced option. You choose from one of eight designs, and then pick which photos you want for each month. You have to sign up for the service to order a calendar, but Snapfish offers one too, though it’s a bit tougher to make. With the Ofoto service, the easiest thing to do is to compile a “calendar” folder in advance, upload it to the service, and pull photos from that. This way, you don’t have to jump from folder to folder (and wait an eternity for each one to load). You can choose to start the calendar on any month you like, so it makes an excellent gift year round.